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@Simon: Sorry about your dog. I get it. We have an old lab that is getting up in years, and will have to go through that soon. Sorry for your loss.
Week of 08/04-08/10
Total Items in Store: 3,365 (Up 35% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 73
Number of Items Sold: 96 (Up 41% YOY)
(Includes 0 Etsy, 10 Poshmark, 1 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 12% (Up 1% YOY)Total Product Sales: $2,581 (Up 22 YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Up $871
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Down $407
Cost of Items Sold: $528
Cost of Labor: $105
Highest Item Sold: $100 ā Pendleton Shirt
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Troy wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 18-15.Clothing
# Listed: 1,944
# Sold: 69
STR: 15%
ASP: $26.33Shoes
# Listed: 823
# Sold: 23
STR: 12%
ASP: $29.11Hard Goods
# Listed: 598
# Sold: 4
STR: 3%
ASP: $23.68EBay
# Listed: 3,365
# Sold: 86
STR: 11%
ASP: $26.38Etsy
# Listed: 218
# Sold: 0
STR: 0%
ASP: $0Poshmark
# Listed: 808
# Sold: 10
STR: 5%
ASP: $31.20Lower level of listing activity due to being gone to New Mexico for my Father’s Memorial and to spread his ashes in the mountians he loved. Forever missed, never forgotten, and this chapter is complete.
Got to get a bunch of items listed this week, as it looks like Veronica and I will have another trip to Montana for a week of ranch work sometime next week.
Sales coming back, hope to see a continued rise.
I like the topic of savings, though I don’t like saving dollars. A couple of items I use. Robinhood is a great app for investing as they have no commissions, and you can send as little as $1 at a time from your bank to them. I do a daily move of 1% of Gross Sales onto their site.
OneGold is a blockchain investment tool for purchasing Gold and Silver. You can buy and sell a digital version (backed by blockchain tech) of Gold and Silver at very low commissions. If you want to convert to physical gold or silver, they have decent rates as well. Investment transfers of as low as $100. I put 1% of Gross Sales daily into a separate account, and when I reach $100, I transfer.
Week of 07/28-08/03
Total Items in Store: 3,379 (Up 35% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 125
Number of Items Sold: 87 (Up 29% YOY)
(Includes 2 Etsy, 4 Poshmark, 0 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 11% (Down 2% YOY)Total Product Sales: $2,400 (Up 9% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Up $223
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Down $29
Cost of Items Sold: $611
Cost of Labor: $124
Highest Item Sold: $120 ā Canali Sport Coat
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Troy wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 18-14.Clothing
# Listed: 1,960
# Sold: 54
STR: 12%
ASP: $24.90
Shoes
# Listed: 823
# Sold: 17
STR: 9%
ASP: $33.83Hard Goods
# Listed: 596
# Sold: 16
STR: 11%
ASP: $30.00EBay
# Listed: 3,379
# Sold: 81
STR: 10%
ASP: $26.42Etsy
# Listed: 221
# Sold: 2
STR: 4%
ASP: $19.83Poshmark
# Listed: 791
# Sold: 4
STR: 2%
ASP: $55.00We set up PayPal to hit the Credit Card as well, but we have to flush PayPal to $0 every time as well…
Week of 07/21-07/27
Total Items in Store: 3,338 (Up 34% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 139
Number of Items Sold: 89 (Up 29% YOY)
(Includes 2 Etsy, 10 Poshmark, 1 Bonanza (WOW!!!), 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 12% (Even YOY)Total Product Sales: $2,312 (Up 19% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Up $564
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Down $198
Cost of Items Sold: $536
Cost of Labor: $372
Highest Item Sold: $100 ā Bohemian Glass Pitcher and Glasses
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Veronica wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 18-13.Clothing
# Listed: 1,934
# Sold: 551
STR: 12%
ASP: $22.16Shoes
# Listed: 803
# Sold: 22
STR: 12%
ASP: $30.78Hard Goods
# Listed: 601
# Sold: 16
STR: 11%
ASP: $31.56EBay
# Listed: 3,338
# Sold: 77
STR: 10%
ASP: $24.75Etsy
# Listed: 222
# Sold: 2
STR: 4%
ASP: $23.87Poshmark
# Listed: 800
# Sold: 10
STR: 5%
ASP: $35.90Gonna listen here soon while listing…
Another decent week of sales. Hoping we have bounced from the summer bottom at this point and will continue the rise into the peak of November. Bonanza woke up, and Poshmark coming back to normal. Even Etsy is kicking in again…
Frantic week this week. Our son and his girlfriend did a surprise visit on Sunday night (had to get emissions and registration on his Jeep here in Colorado), and they just left this morning, so behind in listing this week. Then I have the contract accounting job all day Thursday and Friday, shop Saturday morning, drive to Albuquerque Saturday night, memorial for my father on Sunday, spread his ashes at his favorite hunting spot Sunday, drive back to Denver on Monday morning.
Lots going on!
I know Jay and Ryanne were interested in this. Interesting if it will work for them.
Jay: Let us know how this works!
@MyCottage: Yeah, a continuation of the bifurcation at eBay: !Taking on Amazon and 2) still being the place for weird, old, used items.
That is hard to do in the same brand…
We are not going this year. Originally I was going to be hiking the Colorado Trail so that nixed it, but now I’m not doing either…
Life got in the way again…
Yeah, I wish I was going to eBay Open this year to talk details on this. The details would be interesting…
I remember seeing these Business Policies issues with eBay before. We had moved to SixBit before eBay did this, and this was one of the features we liked that SixBit offered: An easy way to manage shipping and payment options.
Now, a year or so later, I’m still glad that we have SixBit managing these items. They seem much better at it than eBay… š
At buytikiselltiki: I agree. I think eBay has an identity crisis. They started out as the weird, eclectic, place to buy used stuff, but have moved to more new items (80% of sales are new). So they want to take on Amazon (new), but still have the branding of used. I think they will continue to lose marketshare if they do this. They need to pick the street that got them there, and work a way on the corporate side to sell the new stuff somehow. Maybe they split off the brand for the new stuff.
As the ease of getting businesses into the ecommerce space continues, they will have to do something to keep up. Posh, Etsy, and all the smaller ones are going to keep at their heels. And Amazon doesn’t care about those places.
Hard to fight on both fronts…
